Re: "Magic" string

For this bike shed, the shorter while still being effective, the better.

-=R


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thomson@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 19 May 2013 20:22, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> > We've currently incorporated the magic as:
> >
> >> The client connection header is a sequence of 25 octets (in hex
> notation)
> >>
> >> 464f4f202a20485454502f322e300d0a0d0a4241520d0a0d0a
> >> (the string FOO * HTTP/2.0\r\n\r\nBAR\r\n\r\n) followed by a SETTINGS
> frame (Section 3.8.4).
> >
> > That string was based upon the quick testing I did a while back.
> >
> > I'm curious to know how people feel about this; while it's cosmetic, do
> we want to do something a little more... expected, like:
> >
> > START * HTTP/2.0\r\n\r\nGO\r\n\r\n
>
> I don't care.  Existence > colour for this particular bike shed.
>
> But I do know that 5 characters isn't going to fly.  I know at least
> one (major) implementation that only expects 3 or 4 characters before
> the space.
>
>